Novant Health will offer a bundled-payment option for knee-replacement surgery that includes doctors' office visits and physical therapy. Under the arrangement, which is only available to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina customers, patients will receive one bill for services related to the procedure.

Charlotte-based Bojangles' says it can double its presence in the Southeast, where it now operates more than 600 restaurants, but will it feel pressure to expand beyond the region once it becomes a public company?

Duke Energy filed an appeal Thursday requesting that $25.1 million in fines over groundwater contamination at its Sutton power plant in Wilmington be dismissed. The fines, imposed last month by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, set a state record as the largest-ever penalty for environmental damage.

Jack Truong has resigned as CEO of Electrolux Major Appliances North America. The company said Truong left to pursue "other interests." The Swedish appliance-maker moved its North American headquarters to Charlotte in 2010 and expects to employ 1,600 people there by the end of 2017.Related: Electrolux issues profit warning for North America unit

Matthews-based Family Dollar Stores reported second quarter earnings of 67 cents a share, compared with 80 cents a share for the same period a year ago. Excluding merger-related costs, the earnings were higher than analysts' projections. Sales for the quarter rose 3% to $2.8 million.

Dollar Tree said Tuesday it have to sell about 340 Family Dollar stores to comply with the Federal Trade Commission in completing its $8.5 billion acquisition of the Matthews-based retailer. Chesapeake, Va.-based Dollar Tree had originally reported it would need to divest about 300 stores. The deal is expected to close in May.

Total Quality Logistics will add 40 jobs in Charlotte by year-end as part of a companywide expansion. The Cincinnati-based freight brokerage firm employs about 70 people in Charlotte. Most of the new jobs will be sales positions.

CNBC included Bank of America's ill-advised 2011 plan to charge debit card customers a $5 monthly fee on its list of corporate blunders that could have been avoided. Other companies on the list include Coca-Cola, for changing its original soft-drink formula in 1985, and Toys 'R' Us, for selling collectible figures based on characters from the AMC TV series Breaking Bad, complete with detachable sacks of cash and bags of meth.

Charlotte-based Bojangles' filed paperwork Monday for an initial public stock offering. Founded in Charlotte in 1977, the fast-food chain operates 622 stores in 10 states and the District of Columbia, though about two-thirds are in the Carolinas. The SEC filing said the number of shares to be offered and the price range have not been determined.

Shopton Ridge Business Park in southwest Charlotte has sold for more than $33 million. Aventura, Fla.-based Adler Kawa Real Estate Advisors bought the 422,400-square-foot park, which includes four industrial buildings, from Trinity Capital Advisors.

New York-based MetLife said last week it has met its goal of creating more than 1,300 jobs at its retail headquarters Charlotte. In 2013, the insurance company said it would create 2,600 jobs in North Carolina, including 1,300 at a global technology center in Cary, and was awarded up to $87.2 million in state grants.

Duke Energy will pay $2.5 million to Virginia for its February 2014 coal-ash spill into the Dan River, bringing the utility's total costs related to the spill to nearly $150 million. Virginia will spend the majority of the money on environmental projects in areas affected by the spill.

As part of a strategic planning process, Charlotte-based Belk Inc. — the nation's largest family-owned and operated department store — hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to examine the possibility of a sale.

The Foundation for the Carolinas plans to announce Thursday it now manages $1.7 billion in charitable assets, making it the ninth largest community foundation in the nation. The Charlotte-based foundation in 2014 raised $627 million, double the amount raised the previous year, and awarded grants totaling $316 million.

Swisher Hygiene said it may need to sell assets, raise additional equity or take on more debt to improve its financial situation. The Charlotte-based company, which provides cleaning services and products, reported a loss of $2.64 per share in 2014, compared with a loss of $8.55 a share in 2013.

Aquesta Bank will acquire a CertusBank branch in Charlotte's SouthPark neighborhood. It will be the seventh branch for the Cornelius-based bank and its first in Charlotte. Greenville, S.C.-based CertusBank, which was started in Charlotte by former Wachovia and Bank of America executives, also plans to sell a Lenoir branch to Charlotte-based CommunityOne Bancorp.